If you say, “The social utility of the indeterminate sentence is recognized by all criminologists as a part of our sociological evolution toward a more humane and scientific view of punishment,” you can go on talking like that for hours with hardly a movement of the grey matter inside your skull. But, if you begin, “I wish Jones to go to jail and Brown to say when Jones shall come out,” you will discover, with a thrill of horror, that you are obliged to think. The long words are not the hard words; it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word “damn”
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